Etymologies

French mosquée, from Old French mousquaie, from Old Italian moschea, from moscheta, from Old Spanish mezquita, from Arabic masjid; see masjid.

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

From French mosquée, from Italian moschea, ultimately from Arabic مسجد (masjid), literally ‘place of prostration’. (Wiktionary)

Examples

Not content with all this, they built a small miniature mosque at the door with some loose bricks, so that no one could go either out or in without the risk of knocking it down, or so injuring this _mock mosque_ as to rouse, or enable the evil - minded to rouse, the whole Mahommedan population against the offender.

"claim" to Jerusalem is allegedly based on what is written in the koran, which although does not mention Jerusalem even once, nevertheless talks of the "furthest mosque" (in Sura 17: 1): «Glory be unto Allah who did take his servant for a journey at night from the sacred mosque to the furthest mosque».

If for Hosseini the mosque is a place of solace amid the voids of absence and death, for Salman Rushdie, in his 1981 novel, Midnight's Children, the Indian mosque is an inert witness to events mundane and catastrophic at the same time it is an indifferent utility of life and death.

The former Governor of Vermont told the Huffington Post that he "stood by" the remarks he had made earlier in the day on WABC radio in which he called the mosque plan "a real affront to people who lost their lives [on 9/11]."

That, plus the creation of the mosque (which people are in denial about, bandying non-religious terms like "meditation center" or somesuch - please, a mosque is a mosque is a mosque), which finally gives the devotees of Islam a place to pray (smackdab in the middle of what used to a fish pond is a Catholic Church, so fair is fair). posted by Dean at

Critics charge that having what they call a mosque so close to what they consider hallowed ground is an insult to the victims 'families, especially because the attack was perpetrated in the name of Islam.

Conaway later told investigators that he considered himself "anti-government" and, just hours before he called the mosque, was barred by a judge from having contact with his grandchildren, authorities said.